Week 11 - Test 3 Start Flashcards
Culture identity
How indiv. View themselves and are viewed by society
Intersectionality
Understanding how groups and identities result in combination or discrimination and privilege
Sex
Biological Attributes like physical features and anatomy, hormones
Gender
Socially constructed roles and behaviors and identities
Perceptions of Sex and Gender
the difference between Biology and culture often Exaggerated
Compression
THinking in terms of “prototypes, ignoring variation
Amplification
Exaggerating differences between categories
Discrimination
Favoring certain categories over others or see some superior to others
Fossilization
Having a fixed worldview
Gender as a Social or a cultural Construction
We socialized at a young age wha it means to be a man or women
Gender Binaries
Binary means two, gender binary refers to there being two genders or everything falling in either male female or male or masculine. Ex: Blue-Boy, Pink-Girl
Gender Roles
Socially accepted behaviors and attitudes
Gender Stratification
Organizing the world in either boy or girl will lead to unequal access to power, prestige, and wealth
Matriarchy
a form of social organization when females dominate males, its very rare
Patriarchy
social system where men hold power, families and authority
